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When I saw the title I suspect that this would be David Spivak, and happily it is, I am also please to learn that he now has a new co-conspirator in the form of Brendan Fong. I first encountered Spivak's work via Category Theory for Scientists [0] which inspired me to try to come up with ways to use it for documenting scientific protocols. My chief complaint at the time was that someone had not already implemented many of the ideas expressed in his work. Despite the usual treatment of category theory as something mystical and opaque, I find Spivak's work to bring such clarity to communicating complex ideas. Those ideas are always going to be complex, but the way we communicate about them does not have to be. From a quick skim Sketches will provide further inspiration.

0. http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp13/CT4S.pdf



I’ve appreciated his explanation of dB schemas as categories.




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